wow, did I really get THAT good a deal??

Picked up at a flea market today:

Chiki Chiki Boys
Shadown Dancer
General Chaos

All complete for $20.

One guy just told me online that GC complete alone goes for about 20 --
is he kidding?! Wow, funny thing is, I almost passed. I wanted to buy
SNES games mainly, but the seller was refusing to budge on his "$12 per
SNES title" policy, though some were clearly worth only five dollars.
I was about to walk out but then saw the 3 GEN games and fearing he'd
demand 20 for them since they were complete, he just looked at them and
went "eh, 20 for all." Shocked me. I bought it thinking it was a
decent deal. No idea it was THAT good..

Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>
> Without stereotyping, it's worth mentioning that people with less income
> will tend to buy more popular, more mainstream gaming hardware. Since the
> profit has been long squeezed out of these used games already, the big
> game chains are really seeking to take advantage of lower-income gamers
> with N64, SNES and original Playstation games.
>
> This is one of the many pieces of evidence pointing to the argument that
> EB, Gamestop and their associated companies are interested only in
> maximizing their profits and not in serving gamers. The hardcore crowd has
> money that it could be spending on Dreamcast, Neo Geo, 3DO, Saturn, and
> other games from less common consoles. But these stores, supposedly the
> vanguard of the gaming retail world, don't want to sell anything that
> requires in interest in the medium, an appreciation for history or any
> committment to a specialized inventory outside of what you could find in
> Target or Wal-Mart. I don't shop at EB or Gamestop, and I estimate that
> about $2,000 of my money has gone to their competitors over the last
> twelve months.

They are a business and need to make decisions to keep themselves in
business.

The number of people that actually buy 3DO, Neo Geo, Dreamcast, and
Saturn games is significantly lower than the number of people buying
N64, Playstation, and current gen stuff.

These stores have a limited amount of shelf space, and for every 3DO,
Neo, DC, or Saturn game they would have, that's less space for the stuff
that sells better. My guess is they would sell at least 10 PS1 or N64
games for every 1 Dreamcast or Saturn game, and the odds for 3DO and Neo
Geo would be closer to 100 to 1 considering the much more limited
distribution of those titles.

There are, of course, companies that do deal in everything, but here in
Southern California, I've seen a lot of them come and go... the only
ones left have very small sections for the more obscure systems and they
supplement their sale income through rentals.

Heck, if I owned a game store, I'd love to carry Saturn and Dramcast
titles - and furthermore, I wouldn't stock any EA titles, and would
proudly have a neon sign out front stating such. And I probably would
go out of business within a year.

Not to bash your choice of not shopping at Gamestop as I no longer shop
there either thanks to their pushy salespeople and dishonest business
tactics (no it's not new if an employee brought it home and played it,
even if it is re-sealed), but the reason you gave seems a little foolish
to me.

Of course if you don't play current gen stuff at all, then it makes
perfect sense